Today investor Carl Icahn surrendered his bid to take Dell partially private in a leveraged buyout. Instead, Michael Dell, the company’s founder, will now certainly win in his efforts to take Dell private.
It’s been a long, arduous journey. Dell as a company is in a rough time of its history, as the PC market contracts, it deals with painful margin pressure, and competition in… Read More

Carl Icahn bought up another 6.8 million shares of Yahoo earlier this week, bringing his total holdings to 75.6 million shares (just north of 5 percent). He paid just under $10 a share, or about a third of what he paid last May when he started building the bulk of his position.
Of course, now he controls three seats on Yahoo’s board, including the one he occupies. So he is… Read More